The rain before it falls by Jonathan Coe(
Book
)75
editions published
between
2007
and
2015
in
8
languages
and held by
1,810 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A family saga examines the events and relationships that bind three generations of women, as the elderly Rosamond records
her memories of her troubled cousin Beatrix and the tragedy that transformed all of their lives

The terrible privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe(
Book
)63
editions published
between
2010
and
2014
in
10
languages
and held by
1,503 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Maxwell Sim feels he has no meaningful connection to anyone in his life. Trying to get out of this rut, Max quits his job
as a customer service employee at a local department store. He accepts a job to drive a Prius full of toothbrushes to the
remote Shetland Islands as part of a misguided promotional campaign for a dental hygiene company with the slogan, "We reach
furthest." Things don't go as planned and Max makes some impromptu stops to a few of the important people in his life. These
are cruelly enlightening and intensely awkward. Max eventually finds himself falling in love with the soothing voice of the
GPS system ("Emma"). Max begins to wonder if he lacks the ability to establish actual relationships

The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe(
Book
)107
editions published
between
2001
and
2016
in
16
languages
and held by
1,408 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Four teenage boys deal with the hopes, dreams, traumas, and challenges of adolescence as they come of age in industrial Birmingham,
a British city that is confronting its own economic crisis, during the upheaval of the 1970s

The Winshaw legacy : or, what a carve up! by Jonathan Coe(
Book
)107
editions published
between
1994
and
2016
in
12
languages
and held by
1,258 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A social satire on Britain today. The narrator is a writer hired to do the biography of a prominent upper-class family. In
the process, he finds the family represents everything that is wrong with the country, from Hilary, the yellow journalist,
to Thomas, the inside trader, to Henry, the hypocritical medicare reformer, and so up and down the family tree

The house of sleep by Jonathan Coe(
Book
)98
editions published
between
1997
and
2016
in
16
languages
and held by
1,218 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
In a sleep-disorder clinic in Britain, a doctor performs experiments on a motley bunch to have them do with less sleep. A
satirical look at British attitudes to sleep, sex, work, medical care and, inevitably, class

The closed circle by Jonathan Coe(
Book
)58
editions published
between
2004
and
2014
in
7
languages
and held by
1,194 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Brothers Paul and Benjamin Trotter find their lives blown apart when they encounter enemies from their childhood days who
still hold grudges over the way the brothers treated them

Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe(
Book
)41
editions published
between
2013
and
2016
in
8
languages
and held by
952 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk at the Central Office of Information and sent
on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Brittania, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the
British presence at Expo 58 - the biggest World's Fair of the century, and the first to be held since the Second World War.
As soon as he arrives at the site, Thomas feels that he has escaped a repressed, backward-looking country and fallen headlong
into an era of modernity and optimism. But Thomas' new-found sense of freedom comes at a price: the Cold War is at its height,
the mischievous Belgians have placed the American and Soviet pavilions right next to each other - and why is he being followed
everywhere by two mysterious emissaries of the British Secret Service?

Number 11 by Jonathan Coe(
Book
)36
editions published
between
2015
and
2017
in
5
languages
and held by
942 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"Jonathan Coe finally provides a sequel to The Winshaw Legacy, the 1995 novel that introduced American readers to one of Britain's
most exciting new writers -- an acerbic, hilariously dark, and unflinching portrait of modern society. In Number 11, Coe has
filled his intricate plot with a truly Dickensian cast of characters. The novel opens in the early aughts with two ten-year-old
girls, Alison and Rachel, and their frightening encounter with the "Mad Bird Woman," a mysterious figure who lives down the
road. As the narrative progresses through time, the novel broadens in scope toward other people who are somehow connected
to the two girls. We follow the trials and tribulations of Alison's mother, a has-been singer, as she competes on TV's reality
hit I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! Rachel's university mentor confronts her late husband's disastrously obsessive
search for an untraceable German film he saw as a child. A young police constable investigates the seemingly accidental and
unrelated deaths of two stand-up comedians. And when Rachel becomes a nanny for ludicrously wealthy family, she discovers
a dark and terrifying secret lying beneath their immense mansion in London's most staggeringly expensive neighborhood. Combining
psychological insight, social commentary, vicious satire, and even surrealist horror, this highly accomplished work holds
a revealing and disquieting mirror up to the world we live in today"--

Jimmy Stewart : a wonderful life by Jonathan Coe(
Book
)21
editions published
between
1994
and
2013
in
3
languages
and held by
785 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A heavily illustrated biography of the movie star

Like a fiery elephant : the story of B.S. Johnson by Jonathan Coe(
Book
)29
editions published
between
2003
and
2013
in
4
languages
and held by
526 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"The story of Johnson's life is fascinating enough - involving, as it does, parental abandonment during World War II, encounters
with a mysterious poetic goddess in Wales, brushes with the British Secret Service, and a trail of exasperated editors, publishers,
and agents, all of whom were unable to match Johnson's boundless energy and recklessly high standards."--Jacket

The dwarves of death by Jonathan Coe(
Book
)39
editions published
between
1990
and
2014
in
5
languages
and held by
323 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"William has a lot on his mind. Firstly there's The Alaska Factory, the band he plays in. They're no good and they make his
songs sound about as groovy as an unpressed record. In fact they're so bad he's seriously thinking of leaving to join a group
called The Unfortunates. Secondly, there's Madeleine, his high-maintenance girlfriend whose idea of a night of passion is
an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical followed by a doorstep peck on the cheek. Maybe they're not soulmates after all? Lastly, there's
the bizarre murder he's just witnessed. The guiding force behind The Unfortunates lies bludgeoned to death at his feet and,
unfortunately for William, there aren't too many other suspects standing nearby ..."--Page 4 of cover

A touch of love by Jonathan Coe(
Book
)35
editions published
between
1989
and
2014
in
5
languages
and held by
313 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Analyse : Roman de société

The accidental woman by Jonathan Coe(
Book
)34
editions published
between
1987
and
2014
in
5
languages
and held by
262 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Indifferent by choice, indecisive by nature, Maria ploughs her way through fifteen years of womanhood, unable to see what
all the fuss is about. Will she ever be able to direct the course of her own life, or wil it end as it began - by accident?

The terrible privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe(
Recording
)18
editions published
between
2010
and
2014
in
English
and held by
252 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
While he may have 74 friends on Facebook, there is nobody in the world with whom Maxwell Sim can actually share his problems.
Then business requires him to drive to the Shetland Isles, but the journey soon takes a more serious turn

The rain before it falls by Jonathan Coe(
Recording
)13
editions published
between
2007
and
2014
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
179 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Rosamund lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task: to put on tape not just
her own story but the story of the young blind girl, her cousin's granddaughter, who turned up mysteriously at her party all
those years ago. This is a story of generations, of the relationships within a family--and of what goes to make a child

The closed circle : a novel by Jonathan Coe(
Recording
)9
editions published
between
2004
and
2006
in
English
and held by
119 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"The Closed Circle follows the adolescent characters from The Rotters' Club into middle age. On New Year's Eve of 1999, with
Tony Blair presiding over a glossy new version of Britain, Benjamin Trotter watches the celebration on television in the same
Birmingham house where he'd grown up. Watches, in fact, his younger brother Paul, now a member of Parliament and a rising
star of New Labour, glad-handing his way through the festive crowd at the Millennium Dome. Neither of them could guess their
lives are about to implode."--The publisher

The Rotter's Club by Jonathan Coe(
Recording
)15
editions published
between
2001
and
2014
in
English
and held by
100 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"Birmingham, England, C. 1973: Industrial Strikes. Bad Pop Music, Corrosive Class Warfare, Adolescent Angst, Ira Bombings.
Four Friends: A Class Clown Who Stoops Very Low for a Laugh; a Confused Artist Enthralled by Guitar Rock; an Earnest Radical
With Socialist Leanings; and a Quiet Dreamer Obsessed with Poetry, God, and the Prettiest Girl in School. As the World Appears
to Self-Destruct Around Them, They Hold Together to Navigate the Choppy Waters of a Decidedly Ambiguous Decade."--The publisher
- (July 2006)

What a carve up! by Jonathan Coe(
Recording
)11
editions published
between
2003
and
2010
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
94 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
In 1980s Britain, the Winshaw family--an integral part of the British Establishment--are becoming more wealthy and corrupt
by the day. Newspaper columnist Hilary Winshaw gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry is turning hospitals into
carparks; Roddy is selling art in return for sex; down on the farm, Dorothy's squealing every last pound from her livestock;
Thomas is making a killing on the stock exchange, and Mark is selling arms to dictators. Michael Pearce, a reclusive novelist
(and our narrator), is commissioned to write their biography by a wealthy geriatric who wishes to expose them